outcrop

A passenger from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship is in quarantine on tiny Pitcairn Island, a volcanic outcrop in the South Pacific famously settled by mutineers from the HMS Bounty.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

During a visit in early 2025, they explored a small outcrop of rock formed in the early Cretaceous Period.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2026

Literally the answer must be no: Any stories they tell are scientific interpretations of minerals, fossils, isotopes and other features, whether from a geology laboratory or rock outcrop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

It appeared to have been fed by a stream from a outcrop uphill, and archaeologists believe it may have been a water cistern to store fresh water.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026

Bando lingers over a rock outcrop, and we are happy to see a swatch of rare bluebells.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

A quick stroll upstream, a group of DJs unaffiliated with the family-friendly festival hosted a day party aimed at Gen Z and millennial attendees, perched on one of the channel’s outcrops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

A particular pressure point is a cluster of uninhabited outcrops Japan calls Senkaku and China calls Diaoyu.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

"Elsewhere on Mars, rocks like these are probably some of the most important outcrops we've seen from orbit because they are just so hard to form," Horgan said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 2026

Ms Guo's case has gripped the nation as Manila and Beijing continue to spar over reefs and outcrops in the South China Sea.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024

Grasses colonized the gullies, the thin soils deepened, and the rock outcrops disappeared under a fresh layer of sod.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

The Nanushuk Formation is an outcropped layer of sedimentary rock 800 to 5,000 feet thick across the central and western North Slope.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024

It had manifested itself where a stratum of clean white sand, underlaid with clay, outcropped at the foot of a high bank.

From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Strange's notes were incomplete; and although Thirlwell calculated that he was about thirty miles from the spot where the ore outcropped, he had found none of the landmarks.

From The Lure of the North by Bindloss, Harold

Several new varieties of thorn outcropped in Elvira’s daily walk.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

Where rock outcropped and in the sands of bright rapid streams we looked for signs of that gold, so stressed as though it were the only salvation!

From 1492 by Johnston, Mary

The traditional three-pointed-star hood ornament is reduced to a mere outcropping in a sea of monograms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Her subsequent eviction from the Beguines leads to her accepting the Bishop’s offer of sanctuary—as an anchorite, destined to live out her days in a tiny stone outcropping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

Let’s say you’re out on some rugged outcropping and you need to jump on your jackhammer for a few minutes.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2024

It is a six-acre, dome-shaped outcropping that is tricky to reach and even trickier to explore.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

Then the laughing hollers began to come up from the rocks below the outcropping.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt